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3273
Krämer, Peter II
1857 Philadelphia - 1936 Dießen a. Ammersee.
Munich newspaper hawker.
Watercolour and gouache over pencil on chamois cardboard. Signed lower right and inscribed «München (Munich)».
H 21,4,
Peter Krämer II came from a triumvirate of Bavarian-American painters of the same name. His father Peter Krämer I (1823 - 1907) studied under a grand master of historical painting, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, with the support of King Ludwig I. He emigrated to the USA in the 1840s, where he made a name for himself with, among other things, depictions of the American War of Liberation. While Peter Krämer III (1896 - 1972) specialised in church interiors, it was the middle one, Peter Krämer II, who focused on genre painting and whose present work bears witness to his eye for cosy, Bavarian folklore and his interest in the attentively observed depiction of rustic character types. His small-format watercolours usually depict elderly men, whom he captured with an almost obsessive love of detail, with an unmistakable focus on their traditional costumes and individual attributes representing various activities traditionally associated with Bavarian quaintness. In particular, he succeeded in giving his models a robust, nature-loving appearance, which, not without a humorous wink, is intended to convey to the viewer a feeling of serious, down-to-earth attachment to one's homeland and at the same time of uncomplicated, natural cordiality.
Provenance: private collection Munich.
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